Critical Judgement: an incredibly suspenseful and gripping medical thriller you won’t be able to forget... - Softcover

Palmer, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099705214 ISBN 13: 9780099705215

Publisher: Arrow, 1997

Synopsis

Dr Abby Dolan was on the fast track at a major San Francisco hospital when she made a critical choice: to follow her fiance, Josh Wyler, to the picturesque California town of Patience, where he has a new job with the manufacturing giant Colstar. Working in a small-town emergency room, knowing her every move sparks gossip, Abby nonetheless begins to feel at home-until the first undiagnosable patients start to showing up. Abby calls them NIWWs: No Idea What, s Wrong. And despite her cosiderable skills, she can, tcrack these baffling, seemingly random cases. When Josh too begins to suffer disturbing symptoms, followed by manic, even violent behaviour, she wonders: could Colstar somehow be poisoning the town? Warned by a colleague that her predecessor in the ER died in a dubious accident after makink similar allegations, Abby refuses to back off. She begins to question everyone and everything around her in the now hosti le town of patience-while her most dangerous enemy is far closer than she thinks.

About this title

Review:

"Wrenchingly scary...Palmer is reaching the top of a demanding craft."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"This is a novel that manages to scare the socks off the reader while still providing made-for-Hollywood entertainment."
--The Globe and Mail, Toronto

"Palmer [brings] his fascinating ER procedural knowledge to a fast-paced...narrative."
--San Francisco Chronicle

From the Back Cover:

Dr Abby Dolan has everything. The perfect lover. The perfect job. But when she moves with her fiance Josh Wyler to the small California town of Patience, everything changes.

A mystery illness is spreading through the town, and Josh has become desperately ill, manic and violent. As head of the Emergency Room team, Abby sets out to find the cause of the horrifying and fatal epidemic. Abby's quest for the truth brings her face to face with corruption and danger, and uncovers a sinister pattern that links the deadly syndrome to the giant chemical plant that is the town's biggest employer.

It is a quest that will call for strengths Abby never knew she had, a quest with threats lurking around every corner. And with her most dangerous enemy far closer to her than she imagines, the first life she will have to save is her own...

About this edition

• Publisher: Arrow
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0099705214
• ISBN 13: 9780099705215
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400